pableve said:

Can’t wait for the final updates. I would also like links to the updated versions.

stretch009 said:

@Acbagel

PM sent. Thanks!

Sent to both!

Made a ton of progress on the Book 3 update! Probably will be ready for release before the weekend. Only have ~30 minutes of the film left to review. Partial Changelog below:

Added Greef line about Din’s repairs being taken care of no cost. Thought Din needed just a little extra motivation to be willing to go along with the Imperial base raid.
Added sound effects for the fight where Din kills stormtroopers off screen at Nevarro base after he throws the first one off the platform
In the Dr. Pershing recording, removed the overly dramatic and unnatural delay in his speaking, “I will not disappoint you again… MOFF GIDEON.”
Stormtroopers now ambush the squad with blaster shots after approaching stealthily rather than alerting the team first with their stomping footsteps.
Remove a few frames where Din draws his blaster a second time for the same moment, just a leftover from them filming multiple takes from different angles, sometimes these little continuity bugs slip through production.
Removed some frames of stormtroopers firing up at Din jetpacking away because by his speed in the previous scene, his placement is impossibly close indicating he was jetpacking extremely slow when it cuts back to him after their closeup shooting
Total sound effect redesign on the Razorcrest v TIE fighter flipping dogfight. Lot more cinematic now!
Added new shot 5 second of X-Wing entering Nevarro system from hyperspace before they arrive to question Greef. Seeing them arrive in space first really helps the pacing of the Act transition rather than the x-wing just instantly being landed on the planet.
Cut inconsistant blaster grabbing and placement when Cobb kills mining guild in flashback. Also increased the speed of his weapon draw and efficiency of his killing. Lots of dead and awkward frames removed for a deadly and fast exchange like a real shootout now.
Cut Din speaking Tusken language. It’s awkward sounding and I don’t know how he could possibily know how to speak it so fluently. If it was Boba, yeah, sure, but Din? How? Now he just makes the one animal noise to the massiff’s and the tuskens respect him enough to communicate. Especially because Din caveman talks english to them later on, which why would he be doing that if he had a full conversation in Tusken earlier?
Replaced a wide shot of the dead Krayt with a new zoomed in 4k image of it. The original shot makes the Krayt looked too small, and I actually cropped a couple other shots in the battle to better obfuscate its size. I prefer the KOTOR-esque Krayt Dragon design to this small worm-looking one, so by only showing portions of it throughout the entire sequence I think it can appear so big now that we’re only seeing its neck and that it potentially has a massive dragon-like body under the sand the whole time.
Added some camera movement to when Boba leaves the site where he ambushes Din, it just obscures the background a bit more so the scenes blend together smoother.
ADDED a clip of Fennec also watching Boba’s ambush against Din, now when Boba Fett says “We should wait… Perhaps we’ll learn what’s really going on,” it’s a comm to Fennec that we hear over her helmet radio as she watches Din walk away through her rifle scope. She should be with Boba in the story since they’re partners at this point, and I’ve now integrated that story need!
Restored some of the conversation with the frog lady in the hangar. A couple reasons why. 1. This film is already the shortest one and can spare some extra time for Act transitions 2. It helps clarify Din’s intentions to find the Mandalorian covert because that plotline is moving at lightspeed and has so many random occurrences in the show, it’s hard enough to follow already without cuts, so adding some of this context back in just helps slow down that plotline. I still don’t like the overall plot structure of Season 1 ending with a very clear goal to find a Jedi, because Season 2 opens with “I need to find a MANDALORIAN to help me find a Jedi” and it’s a completely random addition, then in the show after the failed attempt to find Boba, the random bug at the cantina just happens to know of Mandalorians on Trask…? Just all kind of nonsensical, so I’ve reworked it to seem like Pelli’s system of “contacts” finds the info while Din was out Krayt hunting, then the frog lady happens to be that contact. Whew. Still not simple to follow, but better as at least some of the complete randomness is removed. I have still removed the “I HAVE to travel at sublight speed” plot point, they just fly the most efficient route to Trask. In this extended scene, I have removed all of Pelli’s frog noises though. The frog lady responds directly to Din and then Pelli just speaks in English.
Added 10 second scene of the Slave 1 following the Razorcrest off Tatooine
Cannot describe how much I hate the stuffy human voices speaking out of the Quarren mouths. So… I have painstakingly replaced all of their dialogue with the proper alien language from KOTOR 2 and subtitled it.